holocron/plugins/kyberforge/skills/agent-audit/SKILL.md

name, description, allowed-tools, metadata

name	description	allowed-tools	metadata
agent-audit	Use when the user wants to review an agent definition they wrote, says "audit this agent", "check if my agent follows best practices", "review my agent file", or wants to know if an agent pair is ready to ship — even if they don't use the word "audit". Also invoke proactively after directly hand-editing an agent file pair outside agent-author — an unaudited hand-edit is the same risk as unreviewed code. Audits a Claude Code .md and Copilot .agent.md agent file pair across six dimensions: structural validation, provider safety, description quality, body quality, comment discipline, and pair consistency — plus provenance chain validation. Produces a compact findings report (findings only, no PASS noise) with Why and Fix per finding. Do not use to fix agent files — use /agent-author instead. Do not use to audit SKILL.md files — use /skill-audit instead.	Bash Read	category source_keys factory context7-websites-code-claude claude-code-plugins-docs claude-code-subagents-docs context7-github-en-copilot github-custom-agents-configuration

Gotchas

• The unit of authoring in this project is always a pair (CC .md + Copilot .agent.md). A missing counterpart is a FAIL under the kyberforge project convention — neither the CC nor the Copilot platform itself requires a counterpart file. Label such findings as project convention violations, not platform spec failures.
• Plugin scope is detected by the presence of plugin.json or .claude-plugin/plugin.json in the directory tree — not by the file path pattern. Walk up both paths at each level, don't guess.
• references/field-inventory.md must exist for validate.sh to run. The script exits with an error if it is missing.
• Do not output findings while auditing — gather internally, surface in Step 3 report.

Step 1 — Run structural validation

bash scripts/validate.sh <path-to-agent-file>
bash scripts/validate-provenance.sh <path-to-agent-file>
scripts/vale-wrap.sh --config assets/vale/.vale.ini <path-to-cc-file> <path-to-copilot-file>

The script accepts either the CC file or the Copilot file. It detects provider from extension, derives the counterpart, and runs all structural checks. Note FAILs and SUGGESTIONs for the ### Structure and ### Provider safety report dimensions. Findings about missing fields, bad name format, empty body, or missing frontmatter → ### Structure. Findings about CC-only fields in a Copilot file, Copilot-only fields in a CC file, plugin-silently-ignored fields, body length, or subagent-unavailable tools → ### Provider safety. A missing counterpart file → ### Pair consistency.

vale-wrap.sh and .vale.ini ship inside this skill's own scripts//assets/ — resolve them relative to this skill's directory the same way scripts/validate.sh is resolved above, so the invocation works whether this skill is running from this repo or from an installed plugin cache. Run it against both files of the pair (not just the one passed in). Kyberforge applies to both files; KyberforgeCopilot applies to the .agent.md file only, since its one rule (Use proactively) flags CC-specific phrasing that's meaningless in a Copilot description — there's nothing to flag in the CC file, so it isn't scoped there. Every Vale alert is a FAIL — all rules are graded error — so report each one in the ### Description / ### Body dimensions citing its rule ID (e.g. KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase). Skip and fall back to Step 2 judgment if vale or .vale.ini is unavailable. If Vale reports 0 files scanned, treat the pass as NOT RUN — not as clean — and fall back to full Step 2 judgment for the dimensions it would have covered.

validate-provenance.sh validates the provenance chain between the agent pair's source_keys and the plugin-scoped sources.md (plugin root — see ADR-0010). It exits 0 silently for non-plugin-scope agents and when no provenance data exists. Note FAILs from this script for the ### Provenance dimension — surface them verbatim with Why and Fix.

If the scripts cannot run (Bash denied, python3 unavailable), perform checks manually: counterpart file exists, required fields present (name, description, non-empty body), name is kebab-case, Copilot CLI .agent.md name must match filename stem (CC files are exempt — the CC platform does not require name to match filename), no FILL IN: placeholders, no CC-only fields in Copilot file, no Copilot-only fields in CC file (read references/field-inventory.md for the authoritative field lists).

Step 2 — Qualitative checks

Read both agent files. Work through each dimension internally. Collect findings only; report in Step 3.

Description (both files):

• Action-verb opening: description starts with a verb ("Reviews...", "Analyzes...", "Generates...") — FAIL if absent. Vale's Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener alert flags the specific known-bad "This agent..." opener directly; verifying an arbitrary opening word is genuinely a strong verb still requires judgment.
• Specificity: is the trigger condition stated precisely? — SUGGESTION if vague. Vale's Kyberforge.VagueWording alert covers known filler ("helps with", "utilize", ...) directly; report those as FAILs without re-deriving by judgment.
• Use proactively in a Copilot description: Vale's KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase alert (Copilot file only) flags this directly — report it without re-deriving by judgment.

If a description finding is borderline, read references/description-quality.md.

Body:

• Direct role instruction: system prompt opens with You are a [role]. When invoked, [action]. — SUGGESTION if absent
• One job per agent: system prompt describes a single bounded task — SUGGESTION if scope appears unbounded
• Generic, non-specific reference pointers to the references/ directory: Vale's Kyberforge.PaddingPhrase alert flags this directly — report it without re-deriving by judgment
• Sentences that open with "There is"/"There are": Vale's Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs alert flags this directly — report it without re-deriving by judgment

Body/Frontmatter comments:

• Inspect each comment block in the YAML frontmatter. For each comment, apply: "Would the agent get this wrong without this comment?" Flag any that answer "no" as padding.
• Look for patterns like # Optional. <long explanation> or extensive inline guidance (more than 1–2 lines per field) that should be condensed or removed before shipping.
• This mirrors skill-audit's body-discipline check but applies to template documentation in the frontmatter — template guidance belongs in development; agent-ready files should have minimal comments.

Pair consistency (cross-file):

• Both files exist — FAIL if counterpart is missing (kyberforge project convention; not a platform requirement from either CC or Copilot — label as such)
• The following checks are covered automatically by validate.sh; apply them manually only when the script cannot run: both system prompt bodies non-empty — FAIL if either is empty

Step 3 — Report

Open with a coverage line:

Checked: structure · provider-safety · description · body · comment-discipline · pair-consistency · provenance

Then output only dimensions that have findings, grouped under H3 headings, FAILs before SUGGESTIONs within each dimension. Omit clean dimensions entirely. ### Provenance findings are sourced verbatim from validate-provenance.sh output — copy them without rephrasing.

For each finding:

FAIL/SUGGESTION  <finding> — file:line
                 Why: <why this is a problem>
                 Fix: <exact change — quote before/after where applicable>

Close with:

## Result

PASS
PASS · P info
PASS (N suggestions)
PASS (N suggestions) · P info
FAIL (N fails · M suggestions)
FAIL (N fails · M suggestions) · P info
Run /agent-author to address findings.

Omit Run /agent-author to address findings. when there are no findings at all. Do not apply fixes — report and propose only.